Thanksgiving Psalms: Psalm 9

Last night, at our Intergenerational Faith Formation Meal, we talked together about thankfulness, and each household received a sort of Thanksgiving devotional book to take home, with a different Psalm of Thanksgiving to read each day from now til Thanksgiving. For those of you who were unable to attend (or who just do better receiving things digitally!) those Psalms will also be sent out via the blog daily until Thanksgiving. Just a chance for you to stop and offer a prayer of thanks from the scriptures each day, developing deeper gratitude in your own lives. How do these ancient prayers of Thanksgiving compare to your own prayers? Which parts of these Thanksgiving prayers connect with your life?

Psalm 9: God’s Power and Justice.  A Psalm of David.

1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;

    I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

2 I will be glad and exult in you;

    I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turned back,

    they stumbled and perished before you.

4 For you have maintained my just cause;

    you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;

    you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

6 The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;

    their cities you have rooted out;

    the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever,

    God has established God’s throne for judgment.

8 God judges the world with righteousness;

    God judges the peoples with equity.

9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,

    a stronghold in times of trouble.

10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,

    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you